{"id":194826,"date":"2008-08-16T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/16\/japan-delaying-fx-rfp\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T10:33:00","slug":"japan-delaying-fx-rfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/16\/japan-delaying-fx-rfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Delaying FX RFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is I&#8217;ve written before, Japan really wants to buy F-22s for the JASDF, but as this is still prohibited by US law, they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/09\/310542\/japan-to-delay-fighter-rfp-once-again.html\">delaying their RFP for a new fighter<\/a>, as they will have a long weight for the JSF since program partners get it first.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they will be upgrading the F-15Js that they are currently flying as a gap filler.<\/p>\n<p>They may also buy an interim aircraft, with the F-15, doubtless with an AESA radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is I&#8217;ve written before, Japan really wants to buy F-22s for the JASDF, but as this is still prohibited by US law, they are delaying their RFP for a new fighter, as they will have a long weight for the JSF since program partners get it first. Instead, they will be upgrading the F-15Js that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-far-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}